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Peta Credlin AO is a weekly columnist with The Australian, and also with News Corp Australia’s Sunday mastheads, including The Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Herald Sun. Since 2017, she has hosted her successful prime-time program Credlin on Sky News Australia, Monday to Thursday at 6.00pm. She’s won a Kennedy Award for her investigative journalism (2021), two News Awards (2021, 2024) and is a joint Walkley Award winner (2016) for her coverage of federal politics. For 16 years, Peta was a policy adviser to Howard government ministers in the portfolios of defence, communications, immigration, and foreign affairs. Between 2009 and 2015, she was chief of staff to Tony Abbott as Leader of the Opposition and later as Prime Minister. Peta is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in Victoria, with legal qualifications from the University of Melbourne and the Australian National University.

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Former prime minister Tony Abbott leaves after Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

The Libs are sinking but Tony Abbott’s no rat

The Liberal Party is in strife, and it’s Tony Abbott’s right, and duty, to give voice to the concerns of everyday supporters, writes Peta Credlin.

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Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

What would a Bill Shorten Australia look like?

As the Turnbull government kicks more own goals, we should take a good hard look at what a Bill Shorten Australia would look like, writes Peta Credlin.

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**FILE** A Nov. 29, 2015 file photo of a bird sitting on electricity wires as a rainbow is seen in the background in Canberra. The energy market operator warns NSW and South Australia could face power shortages as temperatures soar in coming days, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

It’s time our politicians saw the light

THE next election won’t come down to harbourside mansions, writes Peta Credlin. It will turn on who will keep our lights on and power bills down.

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Time to get real with the big election issues

Time to get real with the big election issues

THIS election campaign is so dull even ABC news is often running it down the bulletin. This isn’t because politics is boring. It’s because no-one is talking about the big issues, writes Peta Credlin.

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*** SUNDAY PAPERS... NOT TO BE PUBLISHED BEFORE 1 MAY 2016 *** Former chief of staff to the Prime Minister, Peta Credlin pictured at North Ryde. MUST CREDIT SAM RUTTYN.

Shorten’s ‘solution’ is too taxing

PETA CREDLIN: If Labor doesn’t change the conversation, they cannot win the election. They are mired in a debate about border protection and immigration that they simply cannot win.

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Turnbull, Shorten plotting for power

PETA Credlin, the former chief of staff to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, gives Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten some pointed election advice in her first column.

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